Decompression

Chiropractic Care Promotes Flexibility, Balance, and Coordination

Flexibility, balance, and coordination are innate human functions. These abilities add beauty to the forms of our physical actions. We instinctively admire the grace and skill of professional athletes, men and women who have achieved very high levels of flexibility, balance, and coordination. Many of us have permanent mental images of stunning sports moments we've witnessed, when human beings have performed extraordinary feats using these inborn, yet highly trained abilities.

Not all of can become professional athletes, yet we all can function at the peak of our own capabilities. Chiropractic care helps us do this. By ensuring that our central mechanism of flexibility, balance, and coordination - our spinal column and core musculature - is functioning at maximum efficiency, chiropractic care helps us achieve high performance. Overall health, creativity, and physical abilities are all enhanced by chiropractic care.

Did you know that your spinal column's spongy intervertebral discs (IVDs) comprise 25% of this segmented structure's entire length? Did you know that an adult's spinal column is approximately 24-28 inches in length? A little quick math shows that the total height of your spinal discs is approximately between 6 and 7 inches. But most of us don't get to enjoy the maximum height, springiness, or shock-absorbing capabilities of our spinal IVDs.

Why is that? Another fact known to anatomy students is that IVDs begin losing their total water content at the early age of 2. If you're a young adult, that water-losing process has been going on for 20 years. If you're older, tack on a couple of decades. But this is a natural process. Whether we like it or not, our body parts are not built to last forever. They are designed to keep us healthy and fit for about 150 years (another little known fact). What's not natural is the sedentary lifestyle associated with living in an economy driven largely by the service sector.

Until very recently (75 years ago or so), most adults worked at jobs which required physical labor. Employment in agriculture and industry required actual work using one's body. Those jobs had a built-in exercise component, all day, every day. In contrast, 21st century jobs require a lot of sitting. For many jobs, workers are sitting all day, every day. When you're sitting or standing in an unchanging position, the relentless force of gravity bears down on your spine at a steady, never-changing rate of 32 ft/s2. The long-term result on one's spinal column is compression. Natural water-losing forces are unopposed and your spinal discs just keep getting thinner.

We need to reverse these trends. We need to find ways to pump our discs back up. We want to regain the health of our spinal discs, regain lost stature, and be able to stand up tall, achieving our full physiological height. We need to identify and engage in decompressive activities, activities that will restore fluids to our IVDs.

Fortunately, a highly decompressive set of activities is readily available and has been in use for thousands of years. Yoga is a system of exercises that provides a broad range of health benefits including spinal decompression.1,2,3 In fact, done correctly, all yoga exercises (known as postures, poses, and asanas) result in spinal lengthening. The key is to make the yoga posture active, constantly engaging, working, and lengthening your core muscles while you're doing the pose.

Regular yoga classes (even once a week may be sufficient) will lead to noticeable benefits, including a sense of being taller. The spinal decompression obtained through regular yoga practice will help increase your flexibility, balance, and coordination. Yoga can be done at home. The only equipment needed is a rubber mat. The long-term payoff is big, in more ways than one.

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WELLSBORO OFFICE IS NOW OFFEREING REFLEXOLOGY
"Working the Sole to Touch the Soul" Ron Hagy - Certified ReflexologistWhat Is Reflexology?

Reflexology is an ancient practice, used to stimulate the foot reflexes to help trigger certain parts of the body. There are over 7000 nerve endings in each of your feet. All the nerves correspond to a certain part of the body. This includes muscles, organs, glands, bones, and everything in between. These nerves are tender to the touch when the corresponding body part has stress on it (be that an illness, injury, or poor muscle function). As the session progresses the body will start to detox and eliminate the toxins that have built up over time. This reduction in tenderness reflects the work the body is doing to try to correct the issue and naturally heal.

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Exciting New Service's Have Arrived In BOTH Offices !!!

Welcome Dr. Brittany D.C. She will be working with Dr. Lisa at both locations. New Services Include: Taping, Sport taping: Taping is used over and around the muscles to help improve muscular function and help decrease pain. Scrapping a technique used to help with inflammation, scar tissue and tight muscles. This a form of soft tissue therapy. Apt will also be available to work with Dr. Brittany on special exercises to help strength and support those trouble areas that you suffer from with pain. We will be posting weekly videos to demonstrate these new techniques.